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The dazed-angel expressions on Holmes’s face when she says such things have become a marketing hook and subject of social-media fascination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In Australia's first innings, Renshaw, who ground out a superb 190, faced 52 deliveries pitched as short and played a pull or hook shot to four of them.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

For years now, hotels have been spending more and more on signature fragrances to woo and hook guests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

If signs of economic weakness are more obvious by the December meeting then he might be off the hook for standing pat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The young haint boy and Eileen hook arms and dance.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

If the banks have their hooks into you so deep that you are paying 20% or more on existing card balances, that may not be you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

In general, do you have statistics on outcomes for forward defensives, cuts, drives, hooks, pulls, etc?

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was a punch delivered in Atlanta on Sunday and felt all the way in Washington, smooth and fluid, like one of Sugar Ray Robinson’s left hooks or Muhammad Ali’s left jabs.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

The other draw for players: claw machines leverage some of the exact same cognitive hooks as slot machines, said Elliot Ludvig, a University of Warwick psychology professor who studies rewards-based decision-making.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Gratefully I handed her my hat, which she added to a row of clothes hanging from hooks along one wall.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom